Sentence examples for sharp as a pin from inspiring English sources

In one respect his difference with Mr Obama is sharp as a pin.

By all accounts his legal brain remained as sharp as a pin.

He was equally enthusiastic about a bearskin fescue (Festuca glauca Pic Carlit) that looks velvety, but is as sharp as a pin.

While Thay is still in good health and sharp as a pin, he is not getting any younger and may soon begin to start pulling back from the strenuous schedule that has seen him repeatedly criss-crossing the world, leading retreats and passing on his teachings.

But here he was, nearly 20 years later, looking sharp as a pin and able to say, in effect: "Not so fast!" This was the world today: lacking the relative stability of the cold war, with numerous new nation states apparently incapable of governing themselves and in danger of disintegration.

Some of the new suits and coat dresses, with their razor-sharp shoulders and neat-as-a-pin sobriety, strangely conjured up images of secretaries or 1960's-era airplane hostesses.

This neat-as-a-pin town has several pubs.

The orchestra, conducted by Tony-winning musical director Stephen Oremus, is both creamily luxuriant and sharp as a diamond tie-pin; Wainwright's voice has aged well.

Thus, a spontaneous pain in the finger would be called a sensation; however, if the salient feature of experience is that of a painfully sharp, pointed object, such as a pin located "out there," it would be called a percept.

I particularly admired her sharp-as-pins Mrs Linde in Karel Reisz's beautiful production of Ibsen's A Doll's House in 1993, with Niamh Cusack as Nora.

It is stronger than steel and far sharper than a pin.